"the author is dead" is a metaphor hon, a statement that the authority of the author to set the definitive meaning of the text (s)he produced is no longer valid in the context that each reader brings in their own meanings & translations to the written work.
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ninetydegrees
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on 2006-11-29 08:43 pm (UTC)Not a literal death.